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c#.netwinformsbrowser
Alex Gordon
Alex Gordon

Reputation: 60811

Copy all text from webbrowser control

Is it possible to scrape all the text from a site that was navigated to by WebBrowser control without looking at the source?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 15480

Answers (3)

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499132

You use the DocumentText property or the WebBrowser control.

This property is what holds the HTML of the site you have navigated to.

Update: (following comments)

If you want to parse the HTML and get the text parts of it, I suggest you use the HTML Agility Pack.

Upvotes: 4

gg89
gg89

Reputation: 380

David Walker's method is great when one don't need any info from the header nor non main part of the webpage. if one need something outside inner text, there is only two options, one is to parse with "getElement". the other one is issue commands (Document.ExecCommand) to webbrowser to select all and copy to clipboard:

wb.Document.ExecCommand("SelectAll", false, null);
wb.Document.ExecCommand("Copy", false, null);

then finally string content=clipboard.getText();

Please note the spelling and syntax may not be correct, I'm recalling from my memory

Upvotes: 7

David Walker
David Walker

Reputation: 1506

string browserContents = webBrowser.Document.Body.InnerText;

Upvotes: 5

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